SS personnel told the victims that they were to take a shower and undergo delousing.

The SS quickly suppreSSes the revolt and kills all the sonderkommando members.

The SS red oak victory is a victory ship preserved as a museum ship.

This is because SS was written with a ligature closely resembling the x.

British Dictionary definitions for SS

SS

abbreviation

1.

a paramilitary organization within the Nazi party that provided Hitler's bodyguard, security forces including the Gestapo, concentration camp guards, and a corp of combat troops (the Waffen-SS) in World War II

SS definition

An elite corps of combat troops (SS is short for Schutzstaffel, which is German for “protective shield”) formed originally within the German Nazi party as a bodyguard for Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders and led by Heinrich Himmler. During the 1930s, Hitler steadily expanded the responsibilities of the SS to include the suppression of his political opponents within Germany and the persecution of the Jews. The SS supervised the concentration camps.